Ruimei Li holds a Bachelor’s in Horticulture from Shihezi University and a Ph.D. in Botany from Hainan University. Currently, she is an Associate Researcher at the Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS), and is mainly engaged in the analysis of molecular mechanisms of plant stress tolerance and genetic breeding. She was also a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology (2022–2023). She was awarded the Science and Technology Progress Award of Hainan Province, the Science and Technology Innovation Award of the CATAS, and the Science and Technology Progress Award of the Chinese Society for Tropical Crops.